pannier

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Each camel was furnished on either side with a large pannier, and in each pannier was a lady--weight against weight.

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  1. noun A large wicker basket, especially:
  2. noun One of a pair of baskets carried on the shoulders of a person or on either side of a pack animal.
  3. noun A basket carried on a person's back.

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  • She could wrap her hands up in the pannier-cloth so she wouldn't have to actually touch it. —  The Warslayer
  • Thus fish after fish is deposited in his nicely woven pannier, and on he goes rejoicing, carefully trying his favourite streams, until the weight upon his shoulder, unmistakably intimates, that it is time to be homeward bound. —  The Teesdale Angler
  • Thus resting, he could look into the pannier or basket, into whose sawdust lining his head was to drop in a moment. —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
  • Tim and Chumbo were required to lead the mules which carried the nurses and the children: Josefa sat on one with the baby in her arms; and Kathleen rode in a huge pannier, balancing the younger ones, who were placed in another. —  The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela
  • His daughter having agreed to this proposition, he set off with the lightened pannier, and in less than half an hour we saw him standing out from shore. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
 

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  1. Middle English panier, from Old French, from Latin pānārium, breadbasket, from pānis, bread; see pā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also panier; from Old French *panier. from Late Latin panarius, a bread-seller, prop.adjective, from Latinpanis, bread: see pain. Cf. pannier, pantry, pantler.
 

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